Parthenophil and Parthenophe Sonnettes, Madrigals, Elegies and Odes [by Barnabe Barnes] |
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MADRIGALL 25.
[Whiles these two wrathfull goddesses did rage]
Whiles these two wrathfull goddesses did rage,The little god of might,
(Such as might fitter seeme with craynes to fight,
Then with his bow to vanquish goddes, and kinges)
In a cherry-tree fate smiling;
And lightly wauing with his motley winges)
Fayre winges, in bewtie boyes, and gyrles beguiling,
And cherry garlandes with his handes compiling
Laughing, he leaped light
Vnto the Nymphe, to try which way best might
Her cheare, and with a cherry braunche her bobbed:
But her soft louely lippes
The cherryes, of their ruddie rubye robbed:
Eftsoones he to his quiuer skippes,
And bringes those bottles whence his mother sippes
Her nectar of delight,
Which in her bosome clamed place by right.
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